Dodd's CFB Coaching Hot Seat Rankings

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2007 Hot Seat Ratings: Coach-by-coach
By Dennis Dodd
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Below is a list of the CBS SportsLine.com's Hot Seat Ratings for the upcoming college football season.

Only four coaches have a rating of 4, while zero coaches have a rating of 5. Of the 119 Division I-A schools, 105 coaches are listed in at least a "safe, solid position."

The most secure BCS conference is the Big Ten, with an average rating of 1.23. The SEC is the major conference with the hottest seats with an 1.79 average. The ACC leads all conferences with three "untouchables" -- Frank Beamer, Butch Davis and Jim Grobe.

Hot Seat Rating Key
Rating What it means # of Coaches
0-0.5 Don't even think it -- can't be touched 21
1-1.5 Very safe -- change highly unlikely 40
2-2.5 Safe -- solid position 43
3-3.5 On the bubble -- you never know 11
4-4.5 Warm seat -- feeling the pressure 4
5 On the hot seat -- it's time to win now 0

Team Coach Yrs Rating
Air Force Troy Calhoun 1 1
Akron J.D. Brookhart 4 1
Alabama Nick Saban 1 0
Arizona Mike Stoops 4 3
Arizona State Dennis Erickson 1 1
Arkansas Houston Nutt 10 4
Arkansas State Steve Roberts 6 2.5
Army Stan Brock 1 2
Auburn Tommy Tuberville 9 1.5
Ball State Brady Hoke 5 3
Baylor Guy Morriss 5 3
Boise State Chris Petersen 2 0
Boston College Jeff Jagodzinski 1 2
Bowling Green Gregg Brandon 5 3
Buffalo Turner Gill 2 2
BYU Bronco Mendenhall 3 1.5
California Jeff Tedford 6 1
Central Florida George O'Leary 4 2
Central Michigan Butch Jones 1 1
Cincinnati Brian Kelly 1 1.5
Clemson Tommy Bowden 9 2.5
Colorado Dan Hawkins 2 1.5
Colorado State Sonny Lubick 15 2.5
Connecticut Randy Edsall 9 3
Duke Ted Roof 4 3.5
East Carolina Skip Holtz 3 2
Eastern Michigan Jeff Genyk 4 4
Florida Urban Meyer 3 0
Florida Atlantic Howard Schnellenberger 7 2
Florida International Mario Cristobal 1 1.5
Florida State Bobby Bowden 32 1
Fresno State Pat Hill 11 1.5
Georgia Mark Richt 7 1.5
Georgia Tech Chan Gailey 6 2
Houston Art Briles 5 1
Hawaii June Jones 9 1.5
Idaho Rob Akey 1 2
Illinois Ron Zook 3 2
Indiana Terry Hoeppner 3 2
Iowa Kirk Ferentz 9 1
Iowa State Gene Chizik 1 1.5
Kansas Mark Mangino 6 2.5
Kansas State Ron Prince 2 1
Kent State Doug Martin 4 1.5
Kentucky Rich Brooks 5 2
LSU Les Miles 3 1.5
Louisiana-Lafayette Ricky Bustle 6 2
Louisiana-Monroe Charlie Weatherbie 5 4
Louisiana Tech Derek Dooley 1 2
Louisville Steve Kragthorpe 1 1.5
Marshall Mark Snyder 3 2.5
Maryland Ralph Friedgen 7 1.5
Memphis Tommy West 7 2.5
Miami (Fla.) Randy Shannon 1 2
Miami (Ohio) Shane Montgomery 3 2.5
Michigan Lloyd Carr 13 1
Michigan State Mark Dantonio 1 1.5
Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill 2 1.5
Minnesota Tim Brewster 1 2
Mississippi Ed Orgeron 3 3
Mississippi State Sylvester Croom 4 3
Missouri Gary Pinkel 7 2.5
Navy Paul Johnson 6 0.5
Nebraska Bill Callahan 4 2
Nevada Chris Ault 23 1.5
New Mexico Rocky Long 10 2
New Mexico State Hal Mumme 3 3.5
North Carolina Butch Davis 1 0
N.C. State Tom O'Brien 1 1
North Texas Todd Dodge 1 0.5
Northern Illinois Joe Novak 12 1
Northwestern Pat Fitzgerald 2 1
Notre Dame Charlie Weis 3 1
Ohio Frank Solich 3 2
Ohio State Jim Tressel 7 0
Oklahoma Bob Stoops 9 0.5
Oklahoma State Mike Gundy 3 2
Oregon Mike Bellotti 13 1
Oregon State Mike Riley 7 1.5
Penn State Joe Paterno 42 0
Pittsburgh Dave Wannstedt 3 2.5
Purdue Joe Tiller 11 1.5
Rice David Bailiff 1 2
Rutgers Greg Schiano 7 0
San Diego State Chuck Long 2 2
San Jose State Dick Tomey 3 0
SMU Phil Bennett 6 3
South Carolina Steve Spurrier 3 0.5
South Florida Jim Leavitt 11 0.5
Southern California Pete Carroll 7 0
Southern Mississippi Jeff Bower 18 1
Stanford Jim Harbaugh 1 1.5
Syracuse Greg Robinson 3 4
Temple Al Golden 2 1
Tennessee Phil Fulmer 16 2.5
Texas Mack Brown 10 0
Texas A&M Dennis Franchione 5 2
Texas Christian Gary Patterson 8 0.5
Texas-El Paso Mike Price 3 2
Texas Tech Mike Leach 8 0.5
Toledo Tom Amstutz 7 2.5
Troy Larry Blakeney 17 0.5
Tulane Bob Toledo 1 1.5
Tulsa Todd Graham 1 1.5
UAB Neil Callaway 1 1.5
UCLA Karl Dorrell 5 2.5
UNLV Mike Sanford 3 2.5
Utah Kyle Whittingham 3 2
Utah State Brent Guy 3 3.5
Vanderbilt Bobby Johnson 6 2
Virginia Al Groh 7 2
Virginia Tech Frank Beamer 21 0
Wake Forest Jim Grobe 7 0
Washington Ty Willingham 3 2.5
Washington State Bill Doba 5 2
West Virginia Rich Rodriguez 7 1
Western Michigan Bill Cubit 3 2
Wisconsin Bret Bielema 2 0.5
Wyoming Joe Glenn 5 2.5

* - Years are including the upcoming 2007 season.

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SportsLine.com's annual Coaches on the Hot Seat used to be just that. Hot. It stirred the matches, er, masses. It was juicy. It fed the feedback.

This year, the Hot Seat is back but barely warm. Only four of 119 coaches are "feeling the pressure" (4-4.5 on a scale of five) heading into 2007. Job security, it seems, has broken out like the Ebola virus. One-fifth of schools (24) have new coaches. Only 13 of those schools actually fired their coaches. Honeymoons abound.

That's not to say coaches won't get fired during or after next season. But when Wyoming's Joe Glenn is being mentioned in polite company as being ready for The Big Haircut, it's time to start reading the box scores instead of the tea leaves. When wasn't Ty Willingham fighting some sort of perception problem? Virginia's Al Groh runs off coaches. So what? Where's your outrage Charlottesville?

The SEC has mellowed. In 2006, all of the conference's coaches returned together for the first time since 1988. Then things got back to normal. Mike Shula was culled from the herd.

Who's next? For a while, Ed Orgeron at Ole Miss seemed to be a likely victim, except he just got a two-year extension and is still recruiting like a madman. It's hard to fire a guy who, by this fall, will have had two books significantly chronicle his program.

Arkansas doesn't have the guts, money or the appropriate incriminating phone records to can Houston Nutt. That will come soon enough after the Hogs go 7-5 and the new AD wants his own guy.

Memphis paid $462,500 per victory last season considering Tommy West went 2-10 and makes $925,000 per season. But that makes him a bargain compared to Duke which paid Ted Roof $372,000 for nothing (0-12).

Or Ron Zook ($620,8975 per win) or Dan Hawkins ($549,250) whose two victories each were more expensive to their schools.

There is an entire industry built on coaching searches. Bloggers are now capable of swaying a search just by booting up, putting on a pot of coffee and firing away at the keyboard. Successful employed coaches have leeched on themselves. Just getting their name mentioned in print can lead to an extension or a bonus.